Samuel G. Freedman: On Religion

Hubert Humphrey’s 1948 triumph resonates today.

Clinton, Tenn., tried to desegregate its high school in 1956, one year before Little Rock. It didn’t go well.

Nikita Stewart’s article about Troop 6000 landed them on the front page. Her book should lead to a bigger conversation about their struggles.

Albert Samaha’s “Never Ran, Never Will” spends two seasons with the Mo Better Jaguars, tracking the lives of the team’s young, nonwhite, often at-risk players.

In his latest book, the author David Giffels tries to understand death by building the box he wants to be buried in.

The sport was not incidental to the doctrine of segregation. It was one of the pillars on which it rested.

Its use by a right-wing website and others has gone well beyond its longstanding meaning in the Catholic Church, one of spiritual warfare.

Dozens of chaplains on campuses across the country play a vital dual role: helping Muslim students feel welcome, and introducing Islam to non-Muslims.

In “Getting Religion,” the longtime Newsweek religion editor Kenneth Woodward looks at half a century of American spiritual life.

“Can you imagine knowing that in a few moments death was imminent?” a rabbi said, speaking of the crew of the Challenger shuttle. Three years later, he lived his words.